A 11 years of his last visit to National Auditorium, Reyli Barba He returns to the stage where he once felt he was not ready, but today he says he is arriving differently: without excesses, with health, with a new album and with his own company that supports a 12 date tour.
“Now I am prepared for a National Auditorium. I wasn’t before,” he admitted during a press conference.
The singer-songwriter presented his tour and the album on horsebacka project that marks his reconciliation with himself and with his Mexican roots. “I remembered that I am a charro, I remembered that I am from Chiapas, I remembered that I am a singer who always raises his voice when he reads José Alfredo Jiménez“, said.
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Reyli Barba highlighted that this return occurs without the support of major labels. Everything is done from his label, his studio and his own work team. “The premise of this concert is: we are independent, and we are doing very well, thank God. I have prepared myself for that,” he said. “My company is small, family-owned, but we work 25 hours a day,” he joked.
The musician did not avoid the past. He talked about the dark years of addictions and creative silences. “Those annexes were terrible. I slept 25 hours. It was crazy,” he confessed, so he said that he had already “rested a lot. Now I’m fully back, ready to make music.”
For him, getting back on a horse—literally and symbolically—was part of his recovery. “The horse is my psychiatrist. If I didn’t ride, I would go crazy. I would get lost,” he said and showed the relationship between his album career and his catharsis.
Regarding his new show, he announced that it will not have rigid structures: “I don’t know what songs we are going to play. It is perfect chaos. If I don’t talk much, it lasts two hours and twenty-one minutes if I talk, we go until five in the morning,” he said with a laugh. He described the concert as an “leap of faith, an act of rehearsal” and promised a natural show, without artifice, “as it felt like in the eighties and nineties.”
He also spoke of Elephantthe band with which he debuted at the venue.
“I miss them and I love them. They sound incredible,” he expressed wistfully. However, he recognized the solidity of his present: “I have a band with which I have been rehearsing for 11 years. Now I am ready. Before I was tired, heavy, full of things that hindered me,” he added.
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The tour will begin in March in Cancun and will close in December in Chihuahua. For the Auditorium, it has an opening act: Saint Johnemerging talent in your company. “We were once the opening act for Maná. I never forgot it. Today I have to pave the way for others,” he said.
To his 53 yearsReyli says he is living the best stage of his life. “I am at the highest moment of my life. I am a grandfather, I have a beautiful family, I write every day. Making songs saves me.”
Finally, Reyli Barba announced that he already has an unreleased album ready and although he did not give details or clues as to when it may be published, he did say that it is possible that he will play something new during his presentation at the National Auditorium.